Mad Experiments: Escape Room
We played this for a Coronavirus stay-at-home team event, with 15 people in 3 rooms, and everyone had a great time! It is definitely challenging but generates lots of fun conversation. We ended up using Zoom to talk with each other, and used the Zoom “breakout room” feature to split into the 3 rooms. This worked well; however, things work much easier if you run Zoom on a different machine than the game (Zoom on a phone, for example). Great game! We are looking forward to Chapter 2!
[Update] We had another team event playing through Chapter 2, and it was also great fun! It’s harder than Chapter 1, so don’t feel bad about making more liberal use of the hints . . .
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
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A pretty good escape room experience, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter (coming out Nov 11!). If you have the cash to burn, I recommend it. After all, it’s cheaper than a real escape room session. Not for people who get extremely nauseated when playing 3d or first person games; I powered through the first chapter and had to take a break before moving on to the second. A friend and I played together and we had different opinions per chapter; she preferred the first, and I preferred the second. The game felt very polished, we did not run into any problems with objects disappearing or falling through the floor, as per older reviews. Mild spoilers/hints to follow.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
I have to say: “I really enjoyed the ride”.
Price per hours played seemed very reasonable.
The graphics are fine and the game ran smooth without so much as a hiccup.
I think SOME of the puzzles are a stretch and I had to just Brute Force a few (I found that frustrating BUT It Could just have been something that I missed).
Another thing that I found strange was that there were Other Puzzles visible to me that I DIDN’T NEED TO SOLVE to move on…curious.
The GREAT THING is that there isn’t BACKTRACKING!!!
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
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Thank you to the developer and publisher at mc2games for creating a game for me to escape, think and enjoy.
The growing list of challenging escape room games continues to grow with the inclusion of the excellent title Escape Room Tested on Humans(ERToH). A challenging, polished game with a surprising message at the end is an absolute must play.
Simple story premise, you play as Alex who awakens in what appears to be a jail cell and must escape. As you move room to room you will come along with a few notes that will give meaning to what is going on and a very surprising ending message from the developer that made me pause though I will not spoil.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Oneiros
Oneiros is an absolutely fantastic experience that falls on blind eyes: It’s realistic yet mysterious approach to world building, the bright color palette, ways in which the story progresses, transitions through-out the journey, comedic moments, strategic methods regarding puzzles, and enjoyability from beginning to end. All of it together paints a journey…of a man, created by Coal Valley Games.
This new endeavor for the creator’s developmental journey, was a way for the developer to branch out. After years of experience as a game developer, he always felt the need to make a story-driven game, so in 2018, he started production. After two years of hard work, on March 27th, 2020, Oneiros was public for the world to see…or…not…see…
– Real player with 29.4 hrs in game
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Oneiros
First Impressions🤔
After completing the game I am glad I stuck with it, and enjoyed most of my time playing Oneiros.
My mind changed from positive to negative a few times mainly due to an infuriating psychedelic maze and an awkward platform level. They were almost enough for me to quit the game completely.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor is a narrative horror puzzle game set in a beautiful and enigmatic victorian era manor with a dark secret.
Unravel The Mystery
After working for more than ten years as the private assistant of the enigmatic railroad magnate Hadley Strange, the news of his sudden and unexpected death along his entire family takes you by surprise. Now you have been appointed as the executor in charge of fulfilling his last will,and take care of his majestic manor, a luxurious property on the outskirts of London. Upon your arrival to the mansion you find an envelope with your name containing a letter bearing a cryptic set of instructions that might change your mind about who your former employer really was.
Delve Into The Manor
Explore a beautiful Victorian Mansion filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical contraptions that will reveal to you even the most intimate aspects of the life, past and legacy of its former residents. Decipher curious locks and find key items and objects that will help you make your way through the 24 manor rooms in a non linear way, each room has a unique beauty and new pieces that will help you unveil the dark secret kept by the residence.
Solve The Puzzles
Solve clever riddles and fascinating mechanical puzzles crafted to ensure that only the right person could unveil the mansion’s secret. Look for clues and take a closer look to your surroundings to discover the shocking truth about the mansion and it’s mysterious residents. Find items and manage your inventory to make your way through the different passages of the mansion, examine many detailed items and discover how to use them to unlock all the rooms and get all the pieces to solve the manor puzzling secret, one so shocking that will leave you breathless.
Features
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Well Balanced Logic and Inventory Puzzles
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Non Linear Exploration Gameplay
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Rich but not intrusive Story
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Multiple Play Modes & Collectibles
The Pillar
In the words of James May: “No.”.
It’s a pity. The programming is competent. Good use is made of the Unity game engine. The environment is colourful and pretty, though completely ripped off of a well known game. Perhaps one could call it a tribute. I didn’t find any bugs, though I thought I did several times because the game design is a bit strange.
And that’s the problem. Numerous questionable design decisions spoil the game. It carefully explains how to solve a particular puzzle type, but presents a single use of that puzzle type which works differently. It features a bright, powerful, dangerous-looking laser beam … which in its first appearance shines right through where you have to be standing without harming you. There are a number of different puzzle mechanisms, one of which is so fast, and requires such a quick memory, that I cannot solve it without watching a playback outside the game. Things you change, change the environment with appropriate sound-effects, but you can’t see what changes because the game forces you to look away as it happens.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
At first gland, the DEV is definately inspired by “The Witness”. The puzzles however start very easy and simple, but dedicated to be the same as all the others and yet slightly off. But when you progress deeper into the game, sometimes a bit more “challenging” the puzzles become.
The controls are a bit weird, but I could adjust it to a level on which I could work with. Same as for the sound, it was very loud at certain points. Music wasn’t constant, had to put other music in the background. Don’t like silent games.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game